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About these marriage notations in RC baptism registers:  My grandmother's baptism record in Liverpool has the note of the wrong marriage. Another woman of the same name was baptised in the parish a few years before my grandmother and when she applied for a baptism cert to marry, the priest wrote the marriage details against the wrong Catherine - against my grandmother. Then, a few years later, my grandmother comes along intending to marry, and there must have been something of a kerfuffle. The incorrect marriage details were crossed out and the newer, correct, details entered. But the "wrong" marriage details were not copied back to the correct Catherine.
You really ought to see this original baptism register with the attached marriage details in case something like this has happened. And bear in mind that this was done some time before the actual marriage, and represents an "intention", but the marriage itself may have fallen through.

Thanks to both of you.
Google translate gives nafus = maimed and anweddus = obscene, both well within the context. The man being discussed was a wealthy landowner who seems to have been predatory on local women.

Barbara

That's interesting, DB. Thanks for that.
Given that my Grandad was definitely born in 1885, and he doesn't look much younger than about 50 on the picture, 1935 seems around the right date.
It must have been an old-fashioned sort of shop!
Barbara 

The picture does look very 'allo 'allo, doesn't it !
Thanks all for your contributions. It looks like my Grandad DID have a trip to France or Belgium after all. None of us had any idea he ever did anything quite so adventurous.
Barbara

Oh good spot for the St Raphael 1934 advert !  That dates the photo pretty closely doesn't it (although it could have stayed up for a few years, I suppose)

Grandad's second wife wasn't a cycling lady at all. Far more matronly than that, so perhaps Grandad went off for a bit of a spree with his cycling friends before he married her. At least one other friend must have been with him, to take the picture and give him a copy later.  It looks a bit "laddish", too, with the boozy joke going on. Grandad was a teetotaller, so it may have been a wind-up!

What was the passport situation in 1935-ish, does anyone know? Was there perhaps a "day-trip" arrangement?

Barbara